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The Visible Light Spectrum - 751 words
The Visible Light Spectrum "Mr. Petersuh-uh-uhn
... . I need a white crayon for the white parts of
the map!", my daughter's classmate whines as she
peers into her box of mismatched Crayons. "Don't
worry about coloring those parts of the map. White
isn't a color anyways ... ", replies her sixth
grade teacher. Uh-oh. Big mistake! The entire
class is now in for an impromptu lesson in the
properties of light and the visible spectrum,
courtesy of the child of a laser student. Added
bonus: elevated egg-headed status for
aforementioned child. "Excuse me, Mr. Petersen,
but I feel that I must correct you on that. You
are sadly misinformed. My Mom says that white is
the presence of all color and black ...
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13 Were The Elizabethans More Bloodthirsty Or Tolerant Of - 1,288 words
13. Were the Elizabethans more bloodthirsty or
tolerant of violence on stage than we are? In
addition to the visible bloodletting, there is
endless discussion of past gory deeds. Offstage
violence is even brought into view in the form of
a severed head. It's almost as though such
over-exposure is designed to make it ordinary. At
the same time, consider the basic topic of the
play, the usurpation of the crown of England and
its consequences. These are dramatic events. They
can support the highly charged atmosphere of
bloody actions on stage as well as off. By
witnessing Clarence's murder, which has been
carefully set up, we develop a greater revulsion
for its instigator. And even though we ar ...
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13 Were The Elizabethans More Bloodthirsty Or Tolerant Of - 1,210 words
... repulsiveness. His is a Dionysianism so
passionately self-serving, so deliberate if not
cold-blooded, that, corrosive rather than
life-giving like the Dionysian at its best, it
turns all not only to destruction but to
cheapness, ignominy, pointlessness. -Theodore
Weiss, The Breath of Clowns and Kings, 1974 - The
great stories of murder are about men who could
not have done it but who did. They are not
murderers, they are men. And their stories will be
better still when they are excellent men; not
merely brilliant and admirable, but also, in
portions of themselves which we infer rather than
see. Richard is never quite human enough. The
spectacle over which he presides with his bent
back a ...
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22399 - 1,303 words
2/23/99 The Hindenburg Disaster Count Ferdinand
Von Zeppelin and his crew operated their first
airship nearly one hundred years ago. Airships are
big controllable balloons, also known as
dirigibles. There are three classes of airships,
rigid, nonrigid and semirigid. Rigid airships
(zeppelins) use framework in the interior to keep
their shape. Semirigid airships are a combination
of framework and gas pressure to maintain their
shape. Nonrigid airships (blimps) rely solely on
air pressure to keep their form. They are all
propelled with engines, use rudders and elevator
flaps for steering and have a gondola where
passengers travel. The pride of the zeppelin works
was a rigid airship which was o ...
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A Comparison Between The Works Of Amedeo Modigliani And Jacques Villon - 763 words
A Comparison between the Works of Amedeo
Modigliani and Jacques Villon A Comparison between
the Works of Amedeo Modigliani and Jacques Villon
Italian-born Cubist painter, Amedeo Modigliani
(1884-1920) and the French, Jacques Villon
(1875-1963), both painted vibrant and expressive
portraits during the early twentieth-century. In
this case, the chosen portraits are Modigliani's
"Portrait of Mrs. Hastings", 1915 and Villon's
"Mme. Fulgence", 1936. Both of these compositions
are portraits. Nothing is of more importance than
the sitter herself. The female sitter in
Modigliani's piece, sits in an almost dizzying
pose with a twist in her elongated neck (a
Modigliani trademark), a stylized and mask- ...
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A Crime In The Neigborhood - 1,324 words
A Crime In The Neigborhood A Crime In The
Neigborhood It was the summer of 1972 when Spring
Hill, a Washington, D.C., suburb, got its first
taste of an increasingly violent, insecure modern
world. The quiet residential area, whose
inhabitants traditionally left their doors
unlocked and spent the summers attending one
another's cookout, was rocked by the news that
12-year-old Boyd Ellison had been raped and
murdered, his body dumped behind the local mall.
While shaken residents organized a neighborhood
watch program and clued detectives in on anyone's
suspicious behavior, the inhabitants of at least
one house were distracted by a tragedy of their
own: 10-year-old Marsha Eberhardt's father, La ...
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A Lesson From Oliver - 5,261 words
... had little wish to draw him into this
conversation. I decided to change the subject
quickly. "Coincidentally, yes sir. Why I'm
calling, though, is to inquire about the number of
outboard motors that have gone missing since last
week." "Pardon me?" The tone of his voice took a
sudden sinister turn that sent a twinge through my
bladder. Like the rookie I was, I had made some as
yet unrecognized blunder. I felt the strong urge
to conclude the interview immediately, but it was
too late. He knew my name. He knew my brother's
name. He knew why I'd called. He knew everything.
I'd have to bluff past my own ignorance. "Well, I
was wondering if the police suspected some kind of
theft ring being i ...
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A Rose For Emily - 531 words
A Rose For Emily Letting Go Many people hate to
let things go. People find security and comfort in
their possessions and the company they keep. If
all this is ripped away from a person, it can have
a very negative effect on that persons life. In
Faulkners short story, A Rose for Emily,
everything that a person knows is gradually taken
away from her gradually leading to her madness.
Miss Emily, the main character in this short
story, is an example of a time that once was. Miss
Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a
sort of hereditary obligation upon the town(362).
Not only is her appearance a symbol of the past
but the place that she called home is also very
old fashioned. Miss Emi ...
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A Short History Of Antisemitism In Germany - 779 words
A Short History of Anti-Semitism in Germany A
Short History of Anti-Semitism in Germany The
Second World War has left an unmistakable
impression on the whole of Europe that will never
be forgotten. Whether visible to the naked eye, or
hidden in the consciousness of its people, the war
has scarred Europe indelibly. Historically, the
foremost recognizable perpetration against
Europeans was Adolf Hitlers "Final Solution to the
Jewish question". This sophisticated operation of
systematic mass execution was calculated,
organized, and carried out with such horrifying
efficiency that only a madman could have been
responsible for such an act, and Hitler was indeed
mad. However, Anti-Semitism had bee ...
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A Study Of Stonehenge - 1,515 words
A Study Of Stonehenge A Study of Stonehenge I.
Introduction Significance of the study Statement
of the problem II. Stonehenge Facts A. Location B.
Materials Used and Structure C. Stonehenge Today
III. The History of the Stonehenge A. Myths and
Legends B. Mysteries C. Wonder of the World? IV.
Conclusion I. Introduction No place has generated
so much speculation and wild theories as the
standing stones of Stonehenge. After traveling for
miles through the rolling hills and plains of the
English countryside the sight of this unusual
structure made me gasp. A walk around it only
provoked more strange feelings. There's a sense
that this is something very important. For over
5000 years it has stood ...
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A Tale Of Two Cities Two Cities - 1,154 words
A Tale of two cities - Two Cities Two Cities
Jarvis Lorry, an employee of Tellson's Bank, was
sent to find Dr. Manette, an unjustly imprisoned
physician, in Paris and bring him back to England.
Lucie, Manette's daughter who thought that he was
dead, accompanied Mr. Lorry. Upon arriving at
Defarge's wine shop in Paris, they found Mr.
Manette in a dreadful state and took him back to
London with them. Mr. Manette could not rember why
he had been imprisoned, or when he was imprisoned.
He was in a state of Post Tramatic Stress
Dis-order. All the years of imporisonment led to
his insanity, his life was in danger almost every
second of his imprisoned life. In 1780, five years
later, Lucie, Mr. Lorr ...
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Abortion - 2,032 words
Abortion Abortion in today's society has become
very political. You are either pro-choice or
pro-life, and there doesn't seem to be a happy
medium. As we look at abortion and research its
history, should it remain legal in the United
States, or should it be outlawed to reduce the
ever growing rate of abortion. A choice should
continue to exist but the emphasis needs to be
placed on education of the parties involved. James
C. Mohr takes a good look at abortion in his book
Abortion in America. He takes us back in history
to the 1800s so we can understand how the practice
and legalization of abortion has changed over the
year. In the absence of any legislation whatsoever
on the subject of abort ...
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Abuse - 860 words
Abuse Many people may never experience what it is
like to be abused, or to feel hatred for a parent,
but in Bastard Out Of Carolina, the reader gets to
relive what it is like to be abused through the
eyes of a child. This engrossing and wonderfully
written story will open your eyes to the reality
of child abuse. The story is told through the eyes
of Ruth Anne Boatwright, a child brought into the
world with an unknown father and a mother who
struggled to bring her up properly in a situation
bound for despair. This harrowing account will
leave you speechless and flabbergasted. Bastard
Out Of Carolina is bound to make an everlasting
impression in the mind of its readers. Ruth Anne
was born into ...
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African Culture - 1,532 words
African Culture When trying to compare and
contrast the music-culture and society of the
Mbuti and that of the Venda, it becomes difficult
to comment on sound when we haven't heard any
Venda music. It's easy to recognize that for the
Mbuti the music embodies the heart of the forest,
and for the Venda the relation to nature is the
act of a mother giving birth. Thinking about
concept and behavior this makes the music
performed by the two cultures separate and
distinguishable. This is where culture and
environment become important factors. How
noticeable is this when listening to the music of
both peoples? When given the opportunity to
listen, without a trained ear, it would be
difficult to fin ...
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Aids - 1,178 words
Aids For an epidemic that would explode to claim
hundreds of thousands of lives, AIDS surfaced very
quietly in the United States, with a small notice
on June 4, 1981 in a weekly newsletter published
by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta,
alerting doctors to five unusual cases of
pneumonia that had been diagnosed in Los Angeles
residents over the previous few months. All the
patients were homosexual men who had come down
with PCP (Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia), a lung
infection usually seen only severely malnourished
children or adults undergoing intensive
chemotherapy. But until they got sick the
California men were well nourished, vigorous
adults, whose immune systems should have ...
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Air Pollution - 1,431 words
Air Pollution Air pollution Introduction With the
great concern surrounding the destruction of the
earths atmosphere due to air pollution, the
immediate and direct harm caused to the human body
is often over shadowed. While many are aware that
our careless use of hazardous chemicals and fossil
fuels may leave the planet uninhabitable in the
future, most over look the fact that they are also
cause real damage to our bodies at this moment.
Such pollutants cause damage to our respiratory
system, leading to the fluctuation of the life
span of an individual depending on a number of
conditions. Amongst these conditions are the
individuals specific geographic location, age, and
life style. This pap ...
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Air Pollution Report - 1,230 words
Air Pollution Report Air pollution is a major
problem facing our environment today. This dilemma
is harmful to every single living creature on this
planet. How can we limit the causes of air
pollution? There are industrial as well as
residential causes of air pollution. How can we
limit the effects of air pollution? We all know it
affects the environment, but do we all know it
also can affect us directly? How can we control
air pollution? Is the government doing its job to
protect us? Air pollution can be defined as
impureness of the air. Air pollution is all around
us. It might not be as clearly visible in some
areas as others but the fact is that air pollution
is still there affecting us i ...
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Albert Bandura - 1,021 words
... reproduce it with your own behavior. 3.
Reproduction. You have to translate the images or
descriptions into actual behavior. Our ability to
imitate improves with practice at the behaviors
involved. In addition, our abilities improve even
when we just imagine ourselves performing the
behavior. 4. Motivation. Yet with all this, youre
still not going to do anything unless you are
motivated to imitate or until you have some reason
for doing it. Bandura mentions a number of
motives: past reinforcement (traditional
behaviorism), promised reiforcement (incentives we
can imagine), and vicarious reinforcement (seeing
and recalling the model being reinforced). In
addition there are negative motiv ...
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Albert Eienstein - 426 words
Albert Eienstein ALBERT EINSTEIN The
German-American physicist Albert EinsteiN,
contributed more than any other scientist to the
20th-century . Born in the town of Ulm, Germany,
Mar. 14, 1879, HE then later died in Princeton,
N.J., Apr. 18, 1955. In the wake of World War I,
Einstein's theories, especially his theory of
relativity, seemed to many people to point to a
pure quality of human thought, one far removed
from the war and its aftermath. Seldom has a
scientist received such public attention for
having the ability for learning thet he had. in
1905, Einstein examined the phenomenon discovered
by Max Planck, according to which electromagnetic
energy seemed to be emitted from radiating obj ...
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Albert Einstein - 1,216 words
Albert Einstein Albert Einstein Albert Einstein
was one of the greatest brains ever to come to the
20th century. Einstein contributed to the 20th
century more than any other scientist ever. His
theory of relativity is held as the highest
quality of a human thought ever to come. Albert
Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm,
Wurttemberg, Germany. His family moved from Ulm to
Munich and had an unsuccessful business that made
them move later to Milan, Italy. His parents were
dealing with electrical apparatus. At this time
Albert left his German citizenship. He persuades
an exam that would give him the opportunity to
study electrical engineering in Zurich Polytechnic
but failed to pass it. A ...
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